Week 3 Tutorial (Classroom]

A. Expected Learning Outcomes of the Lesson

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

 Identify the basic structures of health care terms

 Apply the SuPeR sequential rule to interpreting the meaning of health care terms

B. Suggested Learning Activities for Tutorial 3

 Exercise: Structure of Medical and Health Care Terminology (Worksheet 3)

C. Supplementary Learning Activities

 List of Common Prefixes
 List of Common Suffixes

D. Useful Resources
Useful online resources for looking up medical and health care terms:
 Medicine Net.com: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/hp.asp
 Medline Plus (U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health):
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medlineplus.html
 Mondofacto – medical dictionary: http://www.mondofacto.com/dictionary/

Useful references for looking up medical and health care terms::

 Dirckx, John H. (ed.). Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions.
Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (latest ed.). (With CD-ROM)
 Ehrlich, Ann and Carol L. Schroeder. Medical Terminology for Health Professions. Albany,
N.Y.: Delmar Thomson Learning. (latest ed.). (With CD-ROM)

CC2040 English for Acade mic Studies ( Health Care) – Study Guide